If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
- John F. Kennedy

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Averaging over 2 deaths a day

It is daily creeping farther and farther from the front pages. People seem to have the impression that something changed with the so called transfer of soveriegnty. It didn't. In case anyone has forgotten, we are still averaging over two U.S. dead each day. That is 901 Americans dead, 121 allied, and countless Iraqis. And don't forget the 5,394 wounded and maimed. We won't even try and count the psychologically scarred?